U2 perform at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, prior to the screening of
U2 3D
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed (Wong was the 2006 Cannes Film Festival's Jury president). The President of the Official Jury was British director Stephen Frears.
Feature film competition [edit]
Festival line-up [edit]
Films in competition [edit]
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Midnight screenings [edit]
Un certain regard [edit]
- Am Ende kommen Touristen, by Robert Thalheim (Germany)
- L'avocat de la terreur, by Barbet Schroeder (France)
- El baño del papa, by Enrique Fernandez and César Charlone (Uruguay)
- The Band's Visit, by Eran Kolirin (Israel)
- California Dreamin', by Cristian Nemescu (Romania)
- Calle Santa Fe, by Carmen Castillo (flagu|Chile)
- Du levande, by Roy Andersson (Sweden)
- Et toi, t'es sur qui?, by Lola Doillon (France)
- Kuaile Gongchang, by Ekachai Uekrongtham (Thailand)
- Magnus, by Kadri Kõusaar (Estonia, UK)
- Blind Mountain, by Li Yang (China)
- Mio fratello è figlio unico, by Daniele Luchetti (Italy)
- Mister Lonely, by Harmony Korine (USA)
- Munyurangabo, by Lee Isaac Chung (USA)
- Night Train, by Diao Yi'nan (China)
- Water Lilies, by Celine Sciamma (France)
- Actrices, by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (France)
- La soledad, by Jaime Rosales (Spain)
Special screenings [edit]
60th anniversary tributes [edit]
Cannes Classics — Documentaries on Cinema [edit]
Competition shorts [edit]
- Ah Ma, by Anthony Chen (Singapore)
- Ark, by Grzegorz Jonkajtys (Poland)
- The Last 15, by Antonio Campos (USA)
- Looking Glass, by Erik Rosenlund (Sweden)
- My Dear Rosseta, by Yang Hae-hoon (South Korea)
- My Sister, by Marco Van Geffen (Netherlands)
- The Oates' Valor, by Tim Thaddeus Cahill (USA)
- Resistance aux tremblements, by Olivier Hems (France)
- Run, by Mark Albiston (New Zealand)
- To onoma tou spourgitiou, by Kyros Papavassiliou (Cyprus)
- Ver Llover, by Elisa Miller (Mexico)
Juries [edit]
International competition [edit]
Un certain regard [edit]
Camera d'or [edit]
Cinefoundation and short films [edit]
Tous Les Cinemas du Monde [edit]
Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, and Colombia.[1][2]
The first two days of this program were devoted entirely to the cinema of India and included films in a number of different languages. The Hindi film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, which screened on 19 May (with Bollywood superstar, Sanjay Dutt, as a Mumbai underworld don, who begins to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi), was particularly well received.[3][4] In addition, a Maniratnam film, Guru, (starring Abhishek Bachchan, Madhavan and Aishwarya Rai and loosely based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani; Bachchan also made a cameo appearance in Lage Raho Munna Bhai) was also a "critical success".[5] Other films included the Hindi film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal starring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, Dharm, the Malayalam film Saira, Missed Call, the Tamil film Veyil, and the Bengali film Dosar.[5] Another Tamil language Indian film, Mozhi was shown in the non-prize category at a later date.
Lebanon [edit]
Debuting at the Director's Fortnight was Nadine Labaki's Caramel, a charming dramedy about five women who gather at a beauty salon and deal with their everday problems with men, social expectation, sexuality, and tradition vs. modernizing times. Labaki not only directed and co-wrote the film but plays the lead as well. The rest of the cast is composed mostly of unprofessional actors, all of whom deliver very convincing performances and add a lot of color and depth to the film. Reminiscent of an Pedro Almodóvar picture, Caramel is unique not just for its technical and creative sophistication but also for not tackling any of the religious, political, or war-related issues that have continued to plague its setting, Lebanon, til now. The film proved to be a sleeper at the festival and was distributed in well over 40 countries, becoming an international hit.
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